Sunkyu Han, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Education & Experience

• Associate Professor: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 2019-

• Assistant Professor: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 2014-2019.

• Postdoctoral Associate: Yale University, 2012-2014 (Advisor: Professor Scott J. Miller).

• Ph.D in Organic Chemistry: Massachussetts Institute of Technology, 2012 (Advisor: Professor Mohammad Movassaghi).

• B.S. in Chemistry (2nd out of 412): Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 2006. 

Synform Interview: Young Career Focus

Weekly Chosun Interview

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한국과학기술한림원 "한림원의 창" 인터뷰

Awards, Fellowships & Services

• Award for Departmental Services (기여상), Department of Chemistry, KAIST (2024)

• Bristol Myers Squibb Lectureship, Department of Chemistry, MIT (2024)

• Amgen Lectureship, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2024)

• Achievement Award, Asian Federation for Medicinal Chemistry (2023)

• Young Advisory Board Member of the Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society (2023 – present)

• Young Scientist Award (젊은과학자상), President of the Republic of Korea (대통령상, 2022)

• KCS-Wiley Young Chemist Award, The Korean Chemical Society (2022)

• College of Natural Sciences Best Teaching Award, KAIST (2022)

• Young Scientist Award (한국유기합성학회 젊은 과학자상), Korean Society of Organic Synthesis (2021)

• Early Career Advisory Board Member of JACS Au (2021 - 2022)

• Award for Departmental Services (기여상), Department of Chemistry, KAIST (2021)

• Elected Member of Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology (한국차세대과학기술 한림원), The Korean Academy of Science and Technology (2021)

• Young Organic Chemist Award (젊은 유기화학자상), Division of Organic Chemistry, Korean Chemical Society (2020)

• Editorial Advisory Board Member of the Journal of Organic Chemistry (2020 – present) 

• Asian Core Program/ICCEOCA-14 Lectureship Awards, coordinators of Japan and Singapore (2019)

• Hanseong Science Award (한성과학상) (2019)

• New Talent by Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry (2019)

• LINKGENESIS-Best Teacher Award (2019)

• JSP (Junior Scientists Participation) Fellowship, the 53rd Bürgenstock Conference (2018)

• Emerging Investigators by Chemical Communications (2018)

• College of Natural Sciences Best Teaching Award, KAIST (2018)

• EWon Assistant Professorship (2018-2021)

• Thieme Chemistry Journals Award (2018)

• POSCO TJ Park (청암, 青岩) Science Fellowship (2018-2019)

• Asian Core Program/Advanced Research Network Lectureship Award, coordinator of China (2016)

• College of Natural Sciences Best Teaching Award, KAIST (2016)

• Kenneth M. Gordon Summer Graduate Fellowship in Organic Chemistry (2011)

• EMD Serono Summer Graduate Fellowship (2010)

• The Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies Scholarship (2006 – 2011)

• GE Foundation Scholar-Leaders Scholarship (2002, 2005)

• Gold Prize in the 6th Samsung Humantech Thesis Prize (2000)